I want to set up a plugin for the Geany editor on a Debian system. It's a theme changing plugin, so I am following this manual. It says:
The simplest way to do this is to copy the contents of the archive
into the ~/.config/geany/filedefs/ folder.
I don't understand this. What do they mean by ~/.config
? Is that the default directory where Geany is installed? I have its files at /usr/lib/geany
but that doesn't seem to be location they are talking about.
Best Answer
~
is your home directory, usually/home/username
. A file or folder name starting with a.
is the Linux version of a hidden file/folder. So~/.config
is a hidden folder within your home directory. Open up your file browser to your home folder, then find the option to show hidden files and folders. If you don't see.config
, you'll have to create it. Then navigate into it, find or create thegeany
folder, go into that, then find or create a folder namedfiledefs
. You can then put the relevant files into there..config is a convention, defined by XDG Base Directory Specification see also https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1024114/location-of-ini-config-files-in-linux-unix